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Bars Down? Norma dismounted and hustled Country Boy to his stall. The big (17.1 hands, 1,450 Ibs.) nine-year-old gelding, worth an estimated $20,000, had kicked himself going over a jump. For the better part of an hour, worried Norma played nursemaid (ice baths, salve, liniment and heavy wrappings) to Country Boy's bruised left fetlock. Such concern was only common sense to Norma: "After all, the horse is 60% of my success." Her own 40% contribution is "rhythm" and "getting to know" Country Boy, plus 22 years of riding experience in a 27-year lifetime...
More important is the discrimination in favor of those wealthy enough and smart enough to go to college. Under the latest plan, a student could stall off his draft board for years...
...week visitors to Gandhinagar got a glimpse of both Tandon's traditional past and Nehru's wondrous future. Sitting in a specially built, galvanized iron-sheeted dining hall, they ate Tandon's strict orthodox menu: rice, wheat pancakes, lentils, sweets, vegetables, buttermilk. Shuffling around the ten-stall "village uplift" exhibition they gaped at tractors, bulldozers and an improved oil seed crusher. They gasped at a lecture on artificial insemination (illustrated with plaster models) and were dazzled by shimmering neon advertisements. They saw posters on the evils of drink; noted the stall which sold cottage-made, unrefined palm...
Morose-looking Owner Ralph Verhurst sat outside a stall in Stable C at Chicago's Sportsman's Park one night last week and gazed critically at an eight-year-old brown mare named Proximity. He shifted his unlit cigar, his 225-lb. bulk, got up slowly and fed the mare a lump of sugar. He was asked, "How does she look?" Belgian-born Ralph Verhurst, who has been trotting Proximity since she was a three-year-old, was characteristically pessimistic: "Bad, bad. I don't think she's got it." Owner Verhurst happily turned...
...agricultural show in Cornwall, King George VI halted before a stall marked "Infestation Division." "What's that name they call ratcatchers now?" asked the King. "Rodent operator, that's it! I suppose Whitehall thought that...